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Ever since my first trip to France at 18, I’ve been enamored with Europe.Don’t get me wrong, I love exploring the US, but there’s something about leaving the country that helps me dive into vacation mode quickly, since I’m an ocean away from life’s daily stressors.After the COVID-19 pandemic, I started feeling a familiar itch to travel abroad, so we visited France together two years ago. The following year, we upped the ante and headed to two countries: France and Italy.When it came time to plan our annual vacation this year, I proposed our most ambitious one yet — three…
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The median income in the US is about $83,000 — and you could make more or less than that number depending on where you live. But which states are the highest earning overall?A new WalletHub study used three income-related measures to rank states: the average annual income of the top 5%, the average annual income of the bottom 20%, and the median annual household income of the state’s entire population.The resulting rankings include some surprises. None of the states known for being home to billionaires, like New York, California, and Florida, took the top spot.WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said New…
Their long and tumultuous relationship began when they were just kids.Even if you have just cursory knowledge about Eminem, you know about Kim, the subject of many of the rapper’s most disturbing songs, like “Kim,” and “’97 Bonnie and Clyde.”The two met when they were just kids (she was 13 and he was 15). Kim and her twin, Dawn, had previously run away from an allegedly abusive home, and eventually began living with Eminem and his mother.In 1995, they welcomed their daughter Hailie (the subject of more Eminem songs), and were married in 1999.But things quickly went downhill — Eminem…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Winch, the founder of Clean Lots. The following has been edited for length and clarity.As a young kid, I watched my parents work hard to keep food on the table. What is now called picking up a few side hustles was then just a way of life: they’d head to second, or even third jobs, to ensure we could make ends meet.As one of three boys, once we became teenagers, we found ourselves helping too. So, it wasn’t a surprise when my dad told me we were going to head…
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TonyBaggett/iStock Editorial via Getty ImagesMcDonald’s (MCD) is experimenting with a new AI-based automated order-taking system called ArchIQ at the drive-thru of five locations across the U.S., Restaurant Business Magazine reported this week. The initiative, powered by Google (GOOG) (GOOGL)-partnered voice-activated
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Worchihan Zingkhai, 40, a content creator from a village in Manipur, India. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve loved football for as long as I can remember.Growing up in a village in Manipur, in northeast India, football is everywhere. We don’t have proper equipment, so we make footballs out of plastic and old clothes rolled into a ball.I can still remember staying awake until 3 a.m. to watch my first World Cup in 1998. We had one black-and-white TV for the entire village, and we pooled money to…
After graduating with a bachelor’s in computer science in 2023, a software company offered me an exciting job that paid $60,000 a year.The catch? I had to move away from home.I had grown up on Long Island all my life, but the company didn’t have an office within commuting distance of my parents’ house. Moving felt daunting. Moving across the country? Even more so.But I felt like I had no choice because of the difficult job market and the rising costs in New York, so I packed up and moved to Texas.The East Coast was nearly impossible to affordI did…
I was 38 weeks pregnant when I stopped being able to walk, at age 28, with my first child of five. I remember the exact moment, standing in a long hallway, where I couldn’t race back to my class where 30 high school kids sat waiting for instruction. I grabbed a rolling chair from a nearby classroom and inched my way back from the bathroom, sitting.I’d developed a painful pelvic bone condition, and I thought for sure I’d be sent home to bed for the rest of my pregnancy.But that’s not what happened next. Instead, I got a call from…